Hallett Materials, Inc. · Struck against a moving object
Customer truck made a turn to back into pile and did not look both ways before moving into traffic road on site and ran into the water truck.
Hempstead Plant: 29 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal
Viking Aggregates
· Surface
Controlled by
Rasmussen Group Inc
Hempstead,
Austin County,
TX
·
Active
MSHA Mine ID: 4105593
Hempstead Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.
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- Fatalities
- 0
- Total incidents
- 4
- Years on record
- 2022–2025
- Latest incident
- Sep 2025
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2021
29
citations
4
significant & substantial
$5,045
proposed penalties
$5,045
paid to date
100% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $0 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2021
13
inspections on record
192
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
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This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.Rate withheld: 192 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.
Hempstead Plant has $5K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 1 contested dockets.
Penalty disposition
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Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.$5K
proposed penalties
$5K
current assessed
$5K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
29 assessments are final orders; 1 contested dockets.
Of $1K in penalties contested before the Commission, $1K was upheld in final decisions.
As of the most recent assessment on 2026-05-11.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Violation severity profile
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Shares are computed over citations that carry the MSHA gravity and negligence coding; a small share of records are uncoded.13.8%
significant & substantial
10.3%
high negligence or reckless
13.8%
reasonably likely or greater
17.2%
permanently disabling or fatal if injury occurs
Negligence coding: 0.0% none, 3.4% low, 86.2% moderate, 10.3% high, 0.0% reckless.
Source: MSHA violations gravity and negligence coding, updated weekly.
When citations were contested
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Contesting a citation before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission is a lawful right. These figures state the public outcomes of that process, from MSHA's Contested Violations file.
2
citations taken to the federal commission · 7% of citations on record
- Settled 2 · 100%
100%
S&S designation survived the contest
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Counts a Significant & Substantial citation as surviving when a settlement or judge's decision kept the designation, or the contest was dismissed or defaulted so the citation stands as issued. Vacated and withdrawn citations, and settlements that removed the designation, count against.of 2 decided S&S contests · industry: 79%
0%
Penalty reduction in decided contests
$1K proposed, $1K after decisions · industry: 39%
Source: MSHA Contested Violations file (public record), updated weekly. A dismissed or defaulted contest leaves the citation standing as issued; a vacated or withdrawn citation is removed from the violation record. Latest contest filed 2024-10-23.
Contested penalties
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A reduction or dismissal at the Commission is a lawful outcome of contesting a proposed penalty. Figures are the proposed amount and the amount upheld in the docket's decision.Largest penalties this mine contested before the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, with the outcome on record.
| Docket | Decision | Judge | Year | Proposed / upheld |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CENT 2025-0009 | Settlement | Lewis | 2025 | $1K → $1K |
Source: FMSHRC civil penalty dockets and decisions (public record), updated weekly.
Health sampling
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A sample is a point in time compliance measurement, not an individual exposure history. These figures describe MSHA sampling records and do not establish causation or personal dose.Metal and nonmetal contaminants (personal samples)
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.
Last sampled: 2025-11-25
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Many samples are screening measurements of substances with no applicable exposure limit; they are counted as samples but excluded from every over-limit figure. Over-limit shares use only limit-tested samples.2
samples
0
limit-tested
Most sampled contaminants
- Respirable dust, <.1mg2
Show the individual readings (2)
| Date | Contaminant | Concentration | Limit | Conc / limit | Occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-25 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Front-end Loader Operator | ||
| 2025-11-25 | Respirable dust, <.1mg | 0 | Front-end Loader Operator |
Source: MSHA respirable dust, quartz, and noise sampling records, updated weekly. Metal/nonmetal contaminant figures come from MSHA's Personal Health Samples and Area Samples files (public record), updated weekly.
Hempstead Plant recorded 13.05 reportable injury cases per 100 full-time workers in 2025.
Injury rate, 2025
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This rate is reportable injury cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers per year, computed as 200,000 times cases divided by MSHA operator-reported employee-hours. Cases are injuries MSHA graded degree 01 through 07; accident-only events that hurt no one are excluded, and so are contractor injuries, whose hours do not attach to a single mine. Rates begin in 2000, when quarterly employment reporting starts, and are withheld below 20,000 hours in a year.13.05
total case rate
6.52
days-away rate
0.000
fatality rate
Above average. The US metal and nonmetal mining average was 1.65 and the all-US-mining average was 1.97 cases per 100 workers.
In Texas, metal and nonmetal mining averaged 1.17 cases per 100 workers that year.
Under 100,000 employee-hours were reported that year, so a single case moves the rate by two or more. Read the figure as approximate.
| Year | total case rate | days-away | fatal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 * | 13.05 | 6.52 | 0.000 |
| 2024 * | 4.80 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2023 * | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
| 2022 * | 7.49 | 0.00 | 0.000 |
* Fewer than 100,000 employee-hours that year; the rate is less stable.
Source: injury cases from MSHA accident and injury records; employee-hours from MSHA quarterly employment reports. Rate is cases per 100 full-time-equivalent workers, operator employees only.
Ownership history
- Hallett Materials, Inc. 2021 to 2025
- Viking Aggregates 2025 to present
Source: MSHA controller and operator history, updated weekly.
Workforce and production
| Year | Employees |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 |
| 2025 | 14 |
| 2024 | 17 |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2021 | 9 |
Source: MSHA quarterly employment and production, updated weekly.
Hempstead Plant sits in Austin County, Texas, where the Census mining category is 2.2% of county employment.
Local economic context
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County figures come from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 5-year pooled estimates, so the 2023 vintage covers 2019 through 2023. The Census category is 'mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction', which is broader than MSHA jurisdiction and includes oil and gas workers no mine employs. These figures describe the surrounding county, not this mine, and are not a factor in any specific incident.Austin County, Texas · Population 30,712
2.2%
Mining share of county employment
$75,994
Median household income
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates.
Quarterly safety rates
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Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q2 | 6,067 | 1 | 0 | 164.8 |
| 2026 Q1 | 9,075 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q4 | 9,098 | 1 | 0 | 109.9 |
| 2025 Q3 | 6,866 | 3 | 0 | 436.9 |
| 2025 Q2 | 6,862 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2025 Q1 | 7,827 | 1 | 0 | 127.8 |
| 2024 Q4 | 8,852 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2024 Q3 | 10,525 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
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| Quarter | Hours worked | Citations | S&S | Per 1M hrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q2 | 11,323 | 2 | 2 | 176.6 |
| 2024 Q1 | 10,934 | 1 | 0 | 91.5 |
| 2023 Q4 | 10,632 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q3 | 10,640 | 1 | 0 | 94.0 |
| 2023 Q2 | 8,932 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2023 Q1 | 7,243 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q4 | 7,122 | 1 | 0 | 140.4 |
| 2022 Q3 | 6,677 | 7 | 1 | 1048.4 |
| 2022 Q2 | 7,037 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2022 Q1 | 5,872 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| 2021 Q4 | 6,203 | 4 | 0 | 644.8 |
No fatalities recorded at this mine.
Reportable incidents
4 on file2025 · 2 incidents
Hallett Materials, Inc. · Over-exertion in wielding or throwing objects
Enclosed space with limited movement lifting and installing liners in velocity box. Lifting panels, oxygen bottles and using sledgehammer.
2024 · 1 incident
November 13, 2024
TX · Metal/Non-Metal
dryer operator, kiln operator, dry plant operator, fluid operator, bed dryer operator
MACHINERY
Hallett Materials, Inc. · Contact with hot objects or substances
While welding the bucket pin on the John Deere 844 wheel loader, a piece of slag dropped down, burnt through employee's jeans and went into their boot burning their foot.
2022 · 1 incident
June 3, 2022
TX · Metal/Non-Metal
laborer, blacksmith, bull gang, parts runner, roustabout, pick-up man, pitman
MACHINERY
Hallett Materials, Inc. · Struck by... (Not Elsewhere Classified)
Employee was working around hand grinder and got two pieces of metal in EE's eye. Employee was wearing all PPE. Glasses and face mask were being used. Employee thought metal got into eye when EE was finished and wiped away sweat from EE's brow.